A plea for a separate State system of educating feeble-minded children was made by Dr. J. Y. Fishbourne, in a lecture which be delivered for the Health Society, in the ...
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Article : 455 wordsThe Premier hopes to get the Federal resolutions through the Assembly within the next fortnight. Asked when he proposed to have the resolutions considered in the Council, ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Opera House management signalised the inauguration of the racing carnival by a monster programme on Saturday evening. There was a surfeit of good things, and the ...
Article : 346 wordsAn inquest was held to-day concerning the death of a young man named Thomas Scott, who expired on the previous day at the hospital while being prepared for an operation. ...
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Article : 69 wordsAt a meeting or the municipal council on Friday night a row occurred between certain aldermen. The disturbance was so great that the mayor declared the meeting ...
Article : 327 wordsReferring to the Australian management of Anglo-Australian cricket, the "London Referee" says:-- One of the things difficult to understand by the ...
Article : 439 wordsThe annual Hospital Sunday parade and service were held this afternoon, when about 9000 persons were present. The Rev. A. S. C. James conducted the service, and Sir ...
Article : 101 wordsMessrs. M'Kenzie and Sons, contractors for the sewerage main in Burnley-street, Richmond, were summoned on Saturday last for using three steam boilers not under the supervision of competent ...
Article : 181 wordsIn his sermon, at All Saints' Church this morning, the Rev. R. C. N. Kelly said the diocese of Melbourne was too large for the Bishop, and added that the establishment ...
Article : 56 wordsThere has been a large demand for seats in connection with the matinee to be given at the Princess's Theatre, on Thursday afternoon next, in aid of the Children's ...
Article : 888 wordsThe Assizes were opened yesterday before Mr. Justice Hood. Richard Toll, a wood cutter, was found guilty of assaulting a girl named Rozanna ...
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Article : 124 wordsDust storms and hot weather continue through out the colony, relieved, in a few cases, by light showers of rain. During the gale at Bathurst the gable end of All Saints' schoolroom was blown ...
Article : 383 wordsAt the South Melbourne police court on Saturday, Joseph and Isabella Williamson and Thomas O'Connell, estate agent, were charged with unlawfully assaulting Albert Dudridge, oyster ...
Article : 212 wordsMr. Hume, a member of the land board, and Mr. Woodbine, who was specially engaged by the Government in connection with the value of properties in Western ...
Article : 394 wordsWe have received the following additional subscriptions:--Proceeds of a [?]d. bazaar held by Elsie Peet and Annie Moffatt, West Melbourne, 7s. ...
Article : 89 wordsOn Saturday morning, at the Collingwood court, a Scotchman named Thomas Bruce Wilson, a resident of Carlton, was charged with using insulting words to Mr. Keele, J.P. On the previous night ...
Article : 228 wordsA debilitated Celestial, with the musical name of Ah Sing, was before the City Court bench on Saturday, charged with vagrancy. Mr. Hodges, the interpreter, stated that the accused was an ...
Article : 97 wordsThe friendly societies' annual charity parade was held to-day. The foundry band headed a procession of 70 cyclists and about 200 members of the various societies. ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. Finlayson prosecuted for the Crown. AN ALBERT PARK ROBBERY. A man named Joseph Emile Roberts was tried on a charge of breaking into the dwelling house ...
Article : 309 wordsAlthough on ins own confession waiter Rozier "never cats oysters," a small bag of the bivalves proved an irresistible temptation to that gentleman, as it lay exposed for sale on the window shelf ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Avon shire council has asked the department to erect a new school at Stratford. The present building and the teacher's residence were condemned some time ago by the ...
Article : 912 wordsWhile Plain Clothes Constables Coakley and M'Donald were taking observations of a house in Albert-street, Abbotsford, on Saturday, four young persons within were fully occupied getting fowls ...
Article : 292 wordsAt the request of the local school board, Mr. A. Stewart, Inspector General of the Education department, yesterday paid a visit to the sewage farm settlement to ...
Article : 581 wordsThe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Thursday, at the North Melbourne court, prosecuted several persons for allowing their cows to be overstocked at the cattle market, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe railway receipts for the carriage of ore have largely increased during the past fortnight, and for the week ended 1st October £7318 was received, being the highest ...
Article : 118 wordsA middle aged man named James Ross was charged at Carlton court on Thursday with cruelly ill-using a horse. Mr. Whitehead stated that about 4 p.m. on Wednesday he saw accused driving a ...
Article : 164 wordsWithout leaving the box, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against a young man named John Francis Evans, who was charged with having broken into a shop occupied by Mr. H. E. Sturdy, ...
Article : 354 wordsThomas O'Neill, coach painter, employed at the Newport workshops, has been missing since Saturday, 1st inst., and it is feared something serious has happened to him. He is described as being ...
Article : 305 wordsWrits have been served on J. W. Kirwan and S. E. Hocking, part proprietors of the "Kalgoorlie Miner," for criminal libel, for publishing an account of an alleged fight ...
Article : 116 wordsGeorge Weller, jun., marine store dealer, of Little Bourke-street, was proceeded against at the District Court on Thursday for neglecting to keep books of his transactions, as required by the ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Canning Park races took place yesterday. Results:--Hurdles: Damocles, 1; Sunbeam, 2; Yale Lock, 3. October Handicap: Donovan, 1; Black-wood, 2; Carrick, 3. Fitzroy Handicap: Aggie, ...
Article : 68 wordsA strongly built young man named Edward Clayton was called upon to answer charges of using obscene language and resisting Constable Tooher, at the South Melbourne court on Wednesday. The ...
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Article : 94 wordsFrank A. White arrived at Perth at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, having completed his 9000 miles. The rider was met at the Midland Junction by several cyclists, who gradually increased in number to ...
Article : 99 wordsAt a meeting held in the Prahran Independent Church on Thursday, under the auspices of the Prahran Women's Christian Temperance Union, presided over by the ...
Article : 79 wordsOwing to the want of rain, crops are going backward fast. An inch of rain is required now to ensure a satisfactory harvest. ECHUCA, Saturday. ...
Article : 275 wordsSir,--I, with others, trust that the remarks of his Honor Judge Casey on the above will have the result of laws being passed that will prevent any person evading ...
Article : 190 wordsA young man named Henry Bright was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by the Collingwood bench on Tuesday for steeling a canary and cage from the veranda[?] of Mrs. Harvey, Eurcka-street, ...
Article : 40 wordsDavid Quinn, laborer, 30, cut his throat with a razor to-day. The wound, which was not serious, was stitched by a doctor. The man was subsequently arrested. He ...
Article : 108 wordsThe police have been unable to trace the alleged assailants of Alexander Puttering, the German sailor, paid off from the barque Weenoona, who made a statement ...
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Article : 195 wordsOn Saturday Detective Neilson and Constable Wilson arrested Hugh Lynch, laborer, aged 30, on the charge of embezzling 18[?]. 9d. from John F. O'Callaghan, carrier, of Heidelberg. Complainant ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 10 Oct 1898, Page 6
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